Gleason's Gielinor Guide

Holy water

Released							20 August 2003 (Update)
Members							Yes
Quest item							Legends' Quest
Properties
Tradeable							No
Equipable							Yes
Stackable							Yes
Noteable							No
Options							Wield, Drop
Examine							A vial of holy water, good against certain demons.
Values
Value							1 coin
High alch							0 coins
Low alch							0 coins
Weight							0 kg
Advanced data
Item ID							732
Link							MOID

Holy water is a consumable Ranged weapon that is used just like throwing knives and darts; however, it will only deal damage against demons. Throwing holy water will cause the vial to break, dropping smashed glass on the floor. As a demonbane weapon, it has an attribute affinity for demons; the item's max hit is increased by 60% in a similar fashion to that of Silverlight. On top of that, it gains an additional +5 damage bonus if the demon is Nezikchened. Upon a successful hit, it will drain the opponent's Defence level by 5%, provided it is a demon.^[1] Multiple holy water hits will not stack their Defence reduction.

The ability to make holy water requires progressing far enough into Legends' Quest. It is started by taking a gold bowl to Gujuo and asking him to bless it. The blessed gold bowl can then be filled with water from the Kharazi pool (via a hollow reed, cut from the tall reed plants by the pool with a machete) and then decanted into enchanted vials to make holy water. One bowl will fill 10 enchanted vials. It is also possible to enchant the vials and siphon the sparkling water directly from the pool into the vials, but this is slower, since only one vial is filled per reed.

During Legends' Quest, holy water can be used to soak Ungadulu, which will result in Nezikchened being weakened in the first battle with him.

Although it is a demonbane weapon, it cannot be used to one-shot the respiratory systems in the Abyssal Sire fight.

Combat stats


Attack bonuses
+0	+0	+0	+0	+6
Defence bonuses

+0	+0	+0	+0	+0
Other bonuses				Slot

+0	+12	+0%	+0	List

	Attack type	Weapon style	Attack speed	Range	Level boost
Accurate	Light	Accurate	4 ticks (2.4s)	4 tiles	+3 Ranged
Rapid	Light	Rapid	3 ticks (1.8s)	4 tiles	None
Longrange	Light	Longrange	4 ticks (2.4s)	6 tiles	+3 Defence

Mechanics

Holy water uses a different form of damage calculation compared to how regular maximum Ranged hits are determined, which ignores some factors that normally serve to increase Ranged damage.^[2] For instance, while boosting one's visible Ranged level will result in an increased maximum hit when using holy water, the use of stat-boosting prayers such as Eagle Eye or Rigour will not, nor does the set effect of Void ranger armour apply to holy water.^[3]

The following formula can be used to calculate the max hit of Holy water :

Maximum Hit=⌊⌊0.5+Visible Ranged Level+10*(Ammo Ranged Strength+64)640⌋*1.6 (If fighting a demon) ⌋+5 (If fighting Nezikchened) ^[a] ^[b] ^[c] ^[d]

^ Only the player's visible ranged level matters. Boosts given through prayers and Void Knight armour are ignored.
^ A stance bonus of 10 is used regardless of attack style used.
^ The ranged strength bonus of the player's armour and gear is ignored. Only the ranged strength bonus of the player's ammo is used. In the case of Holy water, the weapon's ranged strength is used instead.
^ The bonus damage usually provided by wearing a Slayer helmet (i), Salve amulet (i) or Salve amulet (ei) is ignored.

Creation

Requirements
Members		Ticks	0 (0s)

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Enchanted vial	10	N/A
	Golden bowl	1	N/A
Total cost			0
	Holy water	10	N/A

Requirements
Members		Ticks	1 (0.6s)
Tools		Facilities	Water Pool

Materials
Item		Quantity	Cost
	Enchanted vial	1	N/A
Total cost			0
	Holy water	1	N/A

Steps
1. Use a binding book to enchant one or more empty vials.^[a]
2. Hammer two gold bars into a gold bowl at an anvil.^[b]
3. Summon Gujuo by swinging the bullroarer in the Kharazi Jungle.
4. Let Gujuo turn the gold bowl into a blessed gold bowl.^[c]
5. Cut a hollow reed from the tall reeds with a knife.
6. Use the hollow reed on the water pool to fill the bowl.
7. Decant the golden bowl into an enchanted vial.^[d]

^ Drains 5 levels of Magic and Prayer.
^ Requires the sketch prior to completion of Legends' Quest. Failure can result in the loss of one or both bars.
^ Can drain 5 Prayer levels on failure.
^ Up to 10 enchanted vials may be filled by a single golden bowl.

Bulk production

The most effective way to make holy water in bulk is to wear a machete and the Karamja gloves 3. Then:

Bring 28 blessed gold bowls to the pool, drop one
Cut a hollow reed, fill the bowls
Drop a bowl, pick up the empty bowl you previously dropped
Fill that one, drop the reed
Pick up the full one, and teleport to Shilo Village with your gloves
Go to the Shilo Village bank, and fill the enchanted vials there.

It is important to note that if you try to leave the jungle on foot, the water will disappear from your bowls.

Used in recommended equipment

Rank	Method
2	Doom of Mokhaiotl/Strategies (clearing Demonic larvae)

Changes

Date	Changes
6 August 2025 (Update)	Holy water now correctly one-shots range larva spawns during the fight with the Doom of Mokhaiotl.

Gallery (historical)



RuneScape 2 Beta	29 March 2004 – present

Trivia

The inventory icon was originally re-used for divine potions, with the colour changed to represent the various combat potions until 2 July 2020.

References

^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 12 September 2022. Archived from the original on 13 September 2022. Mod Ash: "[Hey Ash. A bit of an obscure question. But what accuracy / damage bonus does the holy water ranged weapon from legends quest gain against demons?] It gets a 1.6x damage multiplier (stacked with +5 damage if the demon is Nezikchened in that quest). The accuracy bonus is more to do with how it drains the target's Defence stat by 5%."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 13 July 2021. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Mod Ash: "It has a custom damage calculation that isn't affected by some of the stuff that'd normally help in ranging."
^ Jagex. Mod Ash's Twitter account. 4 April 2021. Archived from the original on 10 January 2023. Mod Ash: "I don't think the prayer would help there."